Astronauts USA

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Astronauts USA
Made by:
Arzamaskina Milana and
Zamaltdinova Alina

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Contens:
1.Alan
2.Sully
Bartlett
Shepard
Rayd
3.Neil Alden Armstrong
3.John Glenn
4.Eugene Sernan and Harrison Schmitt

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Alan Bartlett Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard was born in the small
town of Derry of the State of New Hampshire, on
November 18, 1923 in family of the colonel of
army. In the early childhood he very much loved
planes. Charles Lindberg's flight through
Atlantic inspired him for the rest of life.
For participation in the Mercury project 110
candidates from among the best military pilots
were taken. In 1959 Shepard was invited as the
member of the program. He made short fifteenminute weeds on May 5, 1961. Three years later
doctors diagnosed Menyer's disease for Alan. He
returned to space in 1971 the commander of a
mission Apollo 14. The team spent thirty three
hours on a lunar surface and collected soil
samples.
Alan Shepard died on July 21, 1998 in Monterrey
from leukemia.

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Sully Rayd
The first woman of America which visited
space became Sully Rayd. She was the third
woman who made a space trip. The first
female US astronaut - Sallie Kristen Rayd was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, the
State of California, the USA. Preparation
for its first flight took five years. The
first is weeded by Sully Rayd took place on
June 18, 1983 when it departed as a part of
crew of a mission "Challenger of STS-7".
Test of the robotic manipulator for
expansion and removal from a satellite orbit
was the main task of crew during the
mission. During this space flight Rayd
operated a 15-meter hand manipulator of the
Challenger shuttle by means of which put the
satellite to orbit. Sully Rayd carried out
in space of 147 hours.

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Neil Alden Armstrong
The person legend Neil Alden Armstrong was born
in Uapakonete, in the USA, the State of Ohio,
on August 5, 1930. On July 16, 1969 "Apollo 11"
under Armstrong's command started with a rocket
launcher on Cape Canaveral. Together with the
commander onboard a starprobe vehicle there
were Michael Collins and Edwin Oldrin. Hundred
three hours of flight later in an orbit of the
Moon there was a detachment of the landing
module to Oldrin and Armstrong onboard who soon
successfully landed on the Moon in the sea of
Tranquility. Neil Armstrong left the first of a
starprobe vehicle, and his colleague filmed
this historical moment. At the same time the
captain of "Apollo 11" said the well-known
phrase which sounded on the air in touch with
Earth:
"It is one small step for the person, but huge
jump for all mankind".

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John Glenn
John Glenn is the first American who
flew about the globe, the second time
became history when in 77 years became
the oldest person who visited space. On
October 29, 1998, being still senator,
it once again became history, having
departed on the Discovery shuttle to
become the oldest space traveler. Flight
lasted nine days. Glenn worked as the
specialist in payload and participated
in experiments which had to check how
his 77-year body will cope with zero
gravity. During flight the shuttle 134
times flew about Earth, having passed
5.8 million km in 213 hours and 44
minutes. In 2012 Glenn got a
presidential medal of Freedom.

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Eugene Sernan and
Harrison Schmitt
Most longer on the Moon the American
astronauts Eugene Sernan and Harrison
Schmitt as a part of crew of "Apollo
17" in 1972 stayed. In total astronauts
were on the surface of the terrestrial
satellite of 75 hours. During this time
they made three exits to a lunar
surface lasting 22 hours. They were the
last who visited the Moon, and,
according to some information, left on
the Moon a small disk with the
inscription "Here the Person Completed
the First Stage of Development of the
Moon, December, 1972".

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• https://24smi.org/celebrity/4266-nil-armstrong.html
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